A7V8X-X + Addon Ultra133 PCI

[C C]

Hello.

I have the A7V8X-X mainboard. I recently bought a Ultra133 PCI controller.
I have three disk drives which are hooked up to the mainboard. I have a DVD
burner and an ATAPI Zip 250.

Before I bought the DVD burner, I had a CD-Writer and the Zip250, and only 2
disk drives. When I bought the DVD burner to replace the CD-Writer, I also
bought a 120Gb disk drive because I know DVD authoring requires a lot of
disk work space. So I have to add another controller.

Anyway, when my CD-Writer and Zip driver were attached to the mainboard
secondary eide controller, I can boot from either device, by sellecting
which one I want to boot from in the bios setup. Now that these devices are
on the separate ultra133 controller, I cannot boot from them anymore.

How can I setup the A7V8X-X bios to boot from a device in an add-on
controller?

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[Paul]

Hello.

I have the A7V8X-X mainboard. I recently bought a Ultra133 PCI controller.
I have three disk drives which are hooked up to the mainboard. I have a DVD
burner and an ATAPI Zip 250.

Before I bought the DVD burner, I had a CD-Writer and the Zip250, and only 2
disk drives. When I bought the DVD burner to replace the CD-Writer, I also
bought a 120Gb disk drive because I know DVD authoring requires a lot of
disk work space. So I have to add another controller.

Anyway, when my CD-Writer and Zip driver were attached to the mainboard
secondary eide controller, I can boot from either device, by sellecting
which one I want to boot from in the bios setup. Now that these devices are
on the separate ultra133 controller, I cannot boot from them anymore.

How can I setup the A7V8X-X bios to boot from a device in an add-on
controller?

Thanks in advance for your help.

A number of storage devices show up as "SCSI" devices to the system,
including add-in IDE controller cards (a form of emulation trickery).
Try looking under the "Other Boot Devices" option in the BIOS and
select [SCSI] and see what happens.

HTH,
Paul

 

[C C]

I tried it. The MB has the "SCSI device" option under the "Other boot
devices". I selected this and put it up the top of the desired boot
sequence. Nothing happened. I placed a bootable CD in the drive in one
boot attempt, and I inserted a bootable Zip 250 disk on the second attemp.

I wonder if the Ultra133 needs to be configured. BTW, at boot up the
Ultra133 detects only the DVD writer drive, not the Zip 250. AND it reports
"Bios not loaded" - I guess because it doesnt see a real had disk device.

Hello.

I have the A7V8X-X mainboard. I recently bought a Ultra133 PCI controller.
I have three disk drives which are hooked up to the mainboard. I have a DVD
burner and an ATAPI Zip 250.

Before I bought the DVD burner, I had a CD-Writer and the Zip250, and only 2
disk drives. When I bought the DVD burner to replace the CD-Writer, I also
bought a 120Gb disk drive because I know DVD authoring requires a lot of
disk work space. So I have to add another controller.

Anyway, when my CD-Writer and Zip driver were attached to the mainboard
secondary eide controller, I can boot from either device, by sellecting
which one I want to boot from in the bios setup. Now that these devices are
on the separate ultra133 controller, I cannot boot from them anymore.

How can I setup the A7V8X-X bios to boot from a device in an add-on
controller?

Thanks in advance for your help.

A number of storage devices show up as "SCSI" devices to the system,
including add-in IDE controller cards (a form of emulation trickery).
Try looking under the "Other Boot Devices" option in the BIOS and
select [SCSI] and see what happens.

HTH,
Paul